hardware error

1. 1.

   error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer

   Broadererror

   Narrowerdisk error

   computer science

Questions about hardware error

What does hardware error mean?

hardware error means "error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer".

Is hardware error a common word?

hardware error is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.